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Subject: Features of BBSERV.EXE (c) F.M. Crosby, W1NPR as of 02/14/91
1. Runs in conjunction with The AA4RE Bulletin Board V2.11 & above by
AA4RE, H. Roy Engehausen.(c) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
2. Runs at regular intervals from wakeup.bb or manually when desired. The
server runs outside of the BBS program in a DOS shell with little
danger of harmful crashes to "BB" using a new server command in V2.11
3. Setup uses a few lines added to parms.bb describing the paths, owners
& subjects of the directories used. Running a quick menu driven setup
program which creates it's own parameter text file.
All BBSERV files may be put in their own directory or pathed to using
paths designated in parms.bb. A single parameter text file is created
in your "BB" default directory.
4. You may designate one additional server name for the messages to be
addressed to in addition to DBSERV & BBSERV which will be the shadow
distribution names. I you can call it MYSERV or whatever up to 6 letters.
5. You may designate up to 50 separate databases which may be either some
of your regular BBS file directories or entirely separate ones. You may
path these in any way desired using the standard parms.bb format.
This allows you to use your existing data and add additional data which
you mat select the way users may access it.
6. Any database may be assigned a remote "OWNER" or editor of this section
of the system. He & he alone may place, remove, replace/edit files in
this section & may send bulletins, updates, new files, indexes & etc.
to the registered users of his section using messages created from a
xxxx.cc type distribution file generated by the server.
7. Users may use most of the FILE commands that are available in the command
line of the BBS's they are used to. Several special commands for users
are also available in addition to the commands used by the servers in
their file updating etc. these are explained in the (I)nfo command from
the server. Up to date directory & wildcard searches are available.
9. Filesize and the type of files that may be requested are contolled by the
server so you may open up any portion of your computer disks for use
without fear that users might download command.com, executable files
or copyrighted programs. Filesize limit is set by the sysop.
10.BBSERV in conjuntion with AA4RE's new ACTION.BB's control over message
routing etc. makes a great combination in almost complete automation of
most aspects of BBSing.
11.Subject? DU will return a list of up to the first 500 registered users.
12 Subject? DU Callsign will return the pertinent registration data for
this user.
13.BBSERV is being developed in conjunction with a W0RLI BBS server, DBSERV
by Tom Ringate K0ZXF to provide automated shadow features & compatible
command structure for both servers.
14. All of these functions are performed at the server by commands sent in
the Subject portion of a message to BBSERV@BBScall